Matt Tries Framing for the Umpteenth Time

 
Matt Nisbet promotes two of his essays that have just been published. He summarizes them in Two Essays on Expelled, Dawkins, and PZ by saying ...

In both essays, I draw attention to the confusing messages that scientist pundits such as Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers continue to send to the wider American public. By combining their attacks on religion with their defense of evolution, they blur the lines between science, religion, and atheism, providing fodder to creationists who claim that evolution is part of a larger atheist agenda. These confusing messages are only likely to be amplified next year during the anniversary celebration of Charles Darwin, as Dawkins goes on a publicity tour for his new book and Myers is reported to also have a book in the works.

Poor old Matt. He just doesn't get it. There's no confusion. Dawkins and PZ (and me) are on the side of rationalism in the war between rationalism and superstition. Evolution is part and parcel of the rationalism perspective while religion and creationism are on the other side.

The only person who is confused is Matt Nisbett because he wants to spin frame the debate differently. It isn't working for him 'cause Dawkins and PZ aren't playing his game.

At the end of the second essay Matt Nisbet comes very close to saying that Dawkins and Myers should shut up because they are interfering with the Nisbett spin frame.

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